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Darksaviour69
November 29th, 2004, 10:21
Net users are getting the chance to fight back against spam websites

Internet portal Lycos has made a screensaver that endlessly requests data from sites that sell the goods and services mentioned in spam e-mail.

Lycos hopes will it make the monthly bandwidth bills of spammers soar by keeping their servers running flat out.


full story (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4051553.stm)

:D

http://makelovenotspam.com/intl/

MetaFox
November 29th, 2004, 11:22
That's funny indeed.

But, it's even funnier considering the company who's doing it.

Lycos has been known to spam and have spyware in their tools themselves. ;)

Darksaviour69
November 29th, 2004, 11:32
thats why i have not Downloaded the screen saver yet, i like the idea, but i waiting to if there are any "side effects" from the sreen saver

Darksaviour69
December 3rd, 2004, 05:44
update


A plan to bump up the bandwidth bills of spammers seems to be getting out of control............Finnish anti-virus firm F-Secure advised against using the screensaver in case of legal problems.

Currently laws in many countries do not explicitly outlaw DDoS attacks but many nations are re-drafting computer use laws to make them specific offences. .....

Full Story (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4061375.stm)